A map of possible alternatives for TTC-35.
Posted on 11/02/2006 12:00:10 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"It is a mystery to me why... it is regarded as a sign of Japanese strength and American weakness that the Japanese find it more attractive to invest in the U.S. than Japan. Surely it is precisely the reverse - a sign of U.S. strength and Japanese weakness."
- Milton Friedman
The people who oppose this must believe that Texas has built the last road it will ever need.
Either that, or they want their taxes raised to pay for new roads instead of having private venture capital pay for them instead.
Or maybe they think someone will force them at gunpoint to use the road.
Or maybe they listen to too much spooky music.
Because it's not true.
I voted for Perry (R) for governor and am proud of it. TSR is using the FReerepublic to get Democrats elected; he just doesn't have the gumptions to admit it.
Not only will the TTC greatly improve mobility across the state for cars and truck, but the new double tracked rail rights of way will greatly improve movement of freight by rail. Texas currently has a rail infrastructure that was laid out in the nineteenth century when Texas had a much lower porpulation. Very little of the rail is doulble tracked allowing simultaneous traffic in both directions. There are lots of rail rights of wat that go through cities and towns with lots of dangerous grade level crossings. The TTC rail corridors will take thousands of trucks off the roads in Texas which will really make the trial lawyers mad due to decreased numbers of truck accidents.
Potential consequences of unfettered free trade ping.
I had the unopposed Dem scenario, too. I didn't vote there either. I felt very strange voting straight ticket. But I think I'm over it now.
I'm hoping there will be so many GOP early votes that the Dems will do something else stupider than even Kerry's mouth!
I always vote for the Libertarian candidate if there is a Libertarian but no Republican on the ballot.
There's been heavy early voting in Nueces County in heavily Republican precincts.
Nueces County? [trying to think, Laredo?] I don't know the Libertarian candidates so I didn't vote where there was not a GOP candidate.
Laredo is in Webb County. Corpus Christi is in Nueces County which borders the Nueces River which was where Mexico claimed the boundary between Mexico and Texas ran.
It doesn't matter to me who the Libertarian candidate is when there is no Republican running. I want the political scientists to see my vote. I want Republicans to run in those races in the future, so I vote for the Libertarian just to show people that the DemocRAT doesn't have my support.
Ordinarily I applaud the idea of focusing on principle and not politics because even though we emotionally want the 'bad guys' to be wrong, we intellectually realize that what is done is more significant that who's doing it.
Another belief I ordinarily subscribe to is that when people behave strangely, that 9 times out of 10 it's because of honest stupidity and not because they're cheating. Once again, the emotion wants to be angry while the intellect says we're all human.
These ideas don't work around election time. There have been too many times that lying Democrats have held up what appears to be principle, they use it as a rationalization to get Republicans out of office, and right after the election we get just the pure politics. This happens so often that it's no longer believable that it's the TTC project being the issue. The title of this thread urges people to vote republicans out of office. The title does not to urge republicans to change policy.
This is criminal. Democrat control of Texas will advance an abortion policy, raise taxes, persecute businesses, overspend, push a homosexual agenda, and build the TTC. TSR either knows this or he's being manipulated by those that do.
A map of possible alternatives for TTC-35.
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